Researchers rushing to adopt AI without understanding the limitations risk committing scientific misconduct.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

An exploration of Gnome’s many failings and how to fix it.

Robin Sloan’s take on AI training on Everything.

A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.

The Baffler is America’s leading voice of incisive and unconventional left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. Founded in 1988 by Thomas Frank and Keith White as “the journal that blunts the cutting edge,” the magazine is currently edited by Matthew Shen Goodman and headquartered in New York. It prints five print issues annually and publishes online nearly every day of the workweek.

This is a personal blog of Diana Leung featuring philosophical and analytical essays that explore a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence, societal observations, psychological principles, and personal reflections on life and mortality.

A Hacker Manifesto is a critical manifesto written by McKenzie Wark, which criticizes the commodification of information in the age of digital culture and globalization. It was published in the United States in 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto

Great essay on the evolution of home pages and the web

I use AI a lot for work, pretty much all day every day. I use coding assistants and custom agents I’ve built. I use AI to help code review changes, dig into bugs, and keep track of my projects. I’ve found lots of things it’s very helpful with, and lots of things it’s terrible at. If there’s one thing I have definitely learned: it does not work the way I imagined.

People keep asking me If I use Generative AI tools for coding and what I think of them, so this is my effort to put my thoughts in writing, so that I can send people here instead of having to repeat myself every time I get the question.

One of the major turning points in my life was reading my dad’s copy of Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion as a teenager. […] But Cialdini’s book was a turning point because it highlighted the very real limitations to human reasoning. No matter how smart you were, the mechanisms of your thinkings could easily be tricked in ways that completely bypassed your logical thinking and could insert ideas and trigger decisions that were not in your best interest.

The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.